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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linas@austin.ibm.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ptrace patch fails stress testing
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 00:45:31 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28174.1049294731@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Apr 2003 12:49:48 +0100." <1049284187.16276.32.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 19:22, linas@austin.ibm.com wrote:
> The problem appears to be that task->mm is dereferenced without 
> looking to see if mm is NULL.  e.g. in the sched.h in the 
> is_dumpable() macro, we have task->mm->dumpable .  I'm sitting
> in front of a KDB session and I'm clearly looking at task->mm
> which is NULL. 

Sorry, KDB is an illegal kernel patch.  Linus has spoken, the kernel
does not need debuggers.

All right, assume a smiley there.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-02 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-01 18:22 linas
2003-04-01 21:25 ` John M Flinchbaugh
2003-04-02 11:49 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-02 14:45   ` Keith Owens [this message]
2003-04-03 15:22 James Cownie
2003-04-03 19:53 ` Chris Wright

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